Facebook to offer messaging service
16 Nov 2010
With it entry into the email webspace, Facebook has now emerged a competitor to AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft and Google with a product to rival their email services.
Facebook's email service aims to tie users more closely to the social networking site at a time when everyone battling for their eyeballs.
The product being offered by Facebook will merge texts, online chats and emails in to single central hub.
Facebook faults traditional email as being too slow and cumbersome and says it needs to step into the modern world of messaging.
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg told reporters and analysts in San Francisco that the service was not an email killer.
He added that perhaps Facebook could help push the way people did messaging in the direction of a simple, real time, immediate personal experience.
''Email is still really important to a lot of people. We think this simple messaging is how people will shift their communication," said Zuckerberg.
According to analysts, the new service will come as an alternative to Gmail, which is the web service experiencing the fastest growth with over 193 million users in the past year according to data tracker ComScore.
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